A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH TO EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 79-84

  Eide, E ^a   Aaron, A ^a   Bakis, R ^a   Hamza, W ^a   Picheny, M ^a   Pitrelli, J ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ENGINES; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HUMAN SPEECH; HUMAN SPEECH COMMUNICATIONS; PARALINGUISTIC; SPEAKING STYLES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TWO CHANNEL;

CONVEYING;

EID: 78649277093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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